A U.S. District Court will hear Stein v LaRose, s.d., 2:24cv-04042, on Tuesday, October 22. This is the case over whether Jill Stein’s votes should be counted. She is on the ballot in Ohio, but after the ballots were printed, the Secretary of State said he would not count her votes, because he perceived that her vice-presidential candidate had withdrawn, even though the vice-presidential candidate had not withdrawn.
Some evidence was taken on Wednesday, October 16, at the status conference.
On October 11, Cornel West appealed his Pennsylvania ballot access case to the Third Circuit. West v Pennsylvania Dept. of State, 24-2913. He had been kept off by the U.S. District Court on October 10, strictly because it is too late to reprint the ballots. However, the U.S. District Court virtually said that West would have won the case if there had been more time. The U.S. District Court said it seems discriminatory that qualified parties need not submit signed affidavits of candidacy for their presidential elector candidates, whereas petitioning candidates must do that.
On October 16, the Nebraska Supreme Court Ruled that Secretary of State must let certain felons register to vote. State ex rel Sprung v Evnen, S-24-563. Here is a link to the Supreme Court’s website, which has the opinion. Scroll down to “Supreme Court Opinions.” This opinion is at the top of the list.
The ruling was handed down on Monday, October 14. Here is the story from ProPublica, with a link to the court decision embedded in the story.
Here is the article of which I speak from KSL-TV.
It was pretty much a big nothingburger (and I am not intending to throw shade on the author), until I read the following sentence:
“It [a report] also suggests the Legislature should consider making public the lists of people who sign candidate petitions.”
As many of you know, I have been involved in petitioning since 1988, which in most quarters qualifies as a long time. I think if people were to know that they would go on a public list if they signed any sort of petition, it would very likely hurt the signature acceptance percentage rate for petitioners. I think this is a potentially devastating idea for any sort of petitioning.
